Has Someone Beat You to Your Tax Refund?
Tax refund fraud has increased over 500% from 2011 to 2013 How does it happen? Criminals across the country are electronically filing millions of fraudulent tax returns using stolen identities and EFINs (Electronic Filing Identification Number) to the tune of billions of dollars in fraudulent refunds paid by the IRS. Fraudsters use fictional data, including W-2 wages, to produce refunds …